Pigeon-hole case



(No Model.)

H. D. PURSELL.

PIGEON HOLE CASH 188848980. 'Patented sept. '7, 1888.

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HARRY D. PURSELL, OF WIASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, OHIO.

PlGEON-HOLE CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,930, dated September 7, 1886.

Application tiled May 12, IRSG.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HARRY D. PURsELL, of IVashiugton Cou rt House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pigeon- Hole Cases, of which the following is a speciication.

My invention relates to a pigeoirhole case, and is an improvement on the device set forth in Leiters Patent No. 299,261, granted lne May 27, 1881.

The object of my invention is to provide a nest of pigeon-holes which are dust-proof and protected by vertical sliding doors that are easily raised to allow access to any particular pigeon-hole and closed to protect the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken perspective View of my invention. Fig. 2 is a' central vertical cross-section of Fig. 1, showing a modiication.

A represents the shell or case; B, the com partments or pigeon-holes; C, the horizontal partitions separating the same. sent a series of slides or doors.

In Fig. 2 doors 2 and 3 are represented as raised and 1 as closed, leaving the compartment which is normally closed by door 2 open for access.

4 represents knobs inserted in the doors for raising them up.

In my said former patent the top of the case is open and the dust works in and down the groove into the pigeon-holes. I obviate this by making the compartment a,which is formed 'by the casings 5, 6, and 7, forming the space a,

into which doorS moves when it or the series of doors below it are raised. In Fig. 1 this 1 2 3 repre Serial No. 201,98?. (No model.)

dusttight compartment covers the entire space above the pigeon-holes, 'the top 6 being attached to the front and rear casings, 5 and 8, while in Fig. 2 a separate compartment is formed by the casings 7 and 8 in front and rear and the hinged door g above, the top of the upper pigeon-hole, O, forming the bottom of this'compartment e. The compartment a being in front of compartment c forms two compartments above the pigeon'holes.

By means of the close compartment a the pigeonholes are fully protected from dust.

The doors 1, 2, and 3 work in grooves, as described in my former patent.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. rlhe combination, with a case having a series of pigeon-holes and sliding doors resting one upon the other, ofthe walls 5, 6, and

constituting the closed dusttight compartment a above the doors at the front of the case, and the door g and rear wall, S, composthereof, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a case having a series of pigeon-holes, and sliding doors resting one on another, the compartment a., formed above the doors at the front of the ease, and the compartment e iu rear thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

H ARRY D. PUR-SELL.

XVitnesses:

H. M. DAUGHERTY, ROBERT Howa'r.

ing the closed compartment c at the rear 

